Recently, President Obama participated in a live town hall with young people from across the country sponsored by MTV, BET, and CMT — taking questions from the audience and Twitter on a variety of topics. On Friday we brought you the first installment of video answers to questions that the President didn’t have a chance to get to […]
This afternoon the President toured American Cord & Webbing in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. It was the kind of business the President thought about as he was cutting taxes for small business 16 times, and making sure health reform made it easier and more affordable to cover their employees. Most recently, it was the kind of […]
After joining President Obama in welcoming students to the White House Science Fair last Monday, OSTP Director John P. Holdren spent Saturday morning with fellow OSTP staffers and an estimated half-a-million other visitors on the National Mall, reveling in the USA Science and Engineering Festival. Under beautiful blue skies, science, mathematics, and engineering literally had […]
Today, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and I proposed the first national standards for greenhouse gas emissions and fuel efficiency for medium and heavy-duty trucks, vans, and buses. This is a historic first step to address categories of vehicles previously excluded from America's corporate average fuel economy guidelines. Currently, the vehicles we propose covering account for […]
Paul was born with hemophilia, so his experience with health insurance has been a “lifelong endeavor.” Recently, he had been enrolled in a policy with a lifetime cap and had been concerned about reaching the maximum limit for care. He was considering changing jobs or moving to another state to find coverage. But provisions in […]
Ever since the Citizens United ruling opened the floodgates to unlimited and undisclosed special interest and corporate spending in our elections, President Obama has repeatedly warned that these undisclosed contributions will give special interests even more power over politicians. And, with that power, they plan to return to the days when lobbyists wrote the laws in Washington […]
First Lady Michelle Obama, with students from Bancroft and Tubman Elementary Schools and members of the Culinary Olympic Team, participates in a White House Kitchen garden harvest on the South Lawn of the White House, The rain stopped and the sun came out just in time for the First Lady’s Fall 2010 Kitchen Garden Harvest. […]
Last week, President Obama participated in a live town hall with young people from across the country sponsored by MTV, BET, and CMT. The President took questions from young people in the audience and questions submitted via Twitter. While the President answered as many questions as he could on topics ranging from education to jobs and the […]
Our country needs a strong, vibrant rural economy. Advanced biofuel production will help create it. Not only will biofuel production from non-food sources create new jobs and new streams of farm income, it will improve environmental quality and reduce our dependence on fossil fuel imported from foreign countries. Speaking to the members of the […]
Just over a year ago, President Obama asked the Federal government to lead by example when he signed Executive Order 13514: Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance. This Order directs federal agencies to set aggressive sustainability goals, and to promote “green practices” more generally. The Department of Veterans Affairs has responded enthusiastically to […]
